ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,984, issued on June 23, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Dynamic task assignment" was invented by Brendon Jude Wilson (San Jose, Calif.), Prashant Jayaram Thakare (Sammamish, Wash.), Cameron Stuart McLeod (Newton, Mass.), Ritu Jain (Newcastle, Wash.) and Jun woo Park (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system configured with local distributed computing framework that enables available compute, storage, and/or sensor resources to be leveraged across a local network. The framework can create a logical grouping of devices associated with specific functionality and select a single device best suited to per...